Perhaps the only true dignity of man is his capacity to despise himself.
-- George Santayana
-- George Santayana
Related:
- Our dignity is not in what we do, but in what we understand. -- George Santayana
- A man's feet should be planted in his country,
but his eyes should survey the world.
-- George Santayana (1863-1952)... - My atheism, like that of Spinoza, is true piety towards the universe
and denies only gods fashioned by men in their own image, to be
servants of their human interests.
-- George Santayana... - But if a man happens to find himself ... he has a mansion which he can inhabit with dignity all the days of his life.
- It is a great advantage for a system of philosophy to be substantially true. -- George Santayana
- A child educated only at school is an uneducated child. -- George Santayana (1863-1952)
- Critics quarrel with other critics. With an artist, no sane man quarrels. -- George Santayana
- The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by
his own side, but he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing
about them.
-- George Orwell... - Man is a religious Animal. He is the only Religious Animal.
He is the only animal that has the True Religion - several of them....
